While high academic standards including challenging material and rigorous exams are understandable hallmarks of a higher education, there should be an overall awareness that not all students are privileged to stable mental health conditions and come from different, sometimes traumatic backgrounds that may impede their usual learning abilities and performance.
But what artist might do justice to Dr. Bishop and her complex story, as its details have so far been reported: the privileged upbringing; her stable marriage to a uxorious husband, who was also her collaborator on scientific inventions; their four children, some of whose homework Dr. Bishop is monitoring from her jail cell?
I am lucky enough to be living in financially stable, relatively privileged circumstances, and to have had the education that allows me to do so.
Even groups sometimes seen in comparison as stable or even privileged, such as Native American nations or the Maori, continue to have considerably lower life expectancy and higher rates of alcoholism and poverty than non-indigenous citizens of their countries.
If it can entrench independence, democracy and a law-based market economy, it would give the European Union (and NATO, with which to Russia's annoyance it has a privileged arrangement) a prosperous and stable eastern neighbour, rather than a bankrupt menace that leaks crime, disease and many thousands of illegal immigrants.
Perhaps the most sensible solution is thus one semidesign: start with a stable protein with a privileged scaffold and modify it to specifically bind a macromolecule of interest.
Some privileged toddlers may dream of a more stable wooden playhouse – big enough to host non-imaginary guests and less likely to blow away in a gust of wind.
Meanwhile, Tom ran away from the memories of that night, unable to grasp that a man like him ― white, privileged, attractive by Western standards, brought up in a stable family with positive role models ― could commit an act like that.
This might be because privileged ethnic groups were more likely to be financially stable and educated.
"I felt very privileged".
